In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
California governor Gavin Newsom’s new proposal devotes $3.2 billion to boost EV adoption goals.
John Kerry says technology to reduce emissions hasn’t been invented yet. He’s wrong.
UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching…
Danish wind turbine giant Vestas has announced today that it, along with a coalition of industry and academic leaders, has figured out how to fully recycle wind turbine blades.
Fully recycling wind turbine blades
As Electrek previously reported at the end of April, the…
Vermont-based electric utility Green Mountain Power (GMP) announced a new program to use Tesla Autobidder software and Powerwalls in order to replace fossil-fuel-powered power plants, thus helping to balance the grid.
GMP has been one of Tesla’s best partners when it…
Elon Musk visits Tesla Gigafactory Berlin, complains about bureaucracy as production is delayed
May 18, 2021
Elon Musk paid a visit to the Tesla Gigafactory Berlin construction site and gave an update on the expected start of production, which is delayed.
Tesla had originally planned to start production at Gigafactory Berlin in July 2021.
Lately, Musk has said that Tesla expects to start production toward the end of the year.
Earlier this month, a report came out of Germany claiming that Tesla was…
Ducati has proven to have an on-again, off-again relationship with the electric motorcycle industry over the past several years.
It began back in January of 2019 when Ducati CEO Claudio Domenicali proclaimed that “the future is electric” and confirmed that Ducati…
Tesla has produced the first Model Y megacast at Gigafactory Texas ahead of the start of production of the Model Y with the new structural battery pack technology.
Tesla structural battery pack
At its Battery Day event last year, Tesla not only unveiled its new 4680…
Quick Charge Podcast: May 15, 2021
May 16, 2021
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
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A Tesla Model S Plaid (or maybe even Plaid+) prototype with an insane retractable spoiler has been spotted on the Laguna Seca race track – trying to beat some record.
While Tesla has yet to deliver the new Model S, the hype is not dying down.
The new version comes with a…
Every week I put on my journalistic scuba gear and dive to the bottom of the abandoned strip-mine-turned-reservoir that is the Alibaba electric vehicle catalogue in order to find the most audacious EVs available. Most of the time I’m so enthralled by the craziness of what…
Tesla is in talks to add another supplier of cheaper LFP battery cells for its electric cars
May 15, 2021
Tesla is in talks to add another supplier of cheaper LFP battery cells, EVE, for its electric cars produced in China, according to a new report.
Last year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk mentioned that he believes the energy density of iron phosphate (LFP) batteries has improved enough that it now makes sense to use the cheaper and cobalt-free batteries in its lower-end vehicles.
Furthermore, the CEO…
